So much to watch, to scroll past. To ignore. Apparently life is so busy, too much going on to care. The need to escape is paramount, to avoid reality. A reality many claim to be normal. Important even. A woman uses her degree to move about on the Olympic stage, elite competitive break dancing we are told. She is now the current meme. Two boxers outshine all of the the others boxing at the Games, “what gender are they?” The question is screamed and hate thrown about by those who never watch boxing, let alone women’s boxing. But, they care for now, outrage! In that time of outcry, 100 were murdered in one day. Many more to follow. Many more before. The US also sent 28,000 bombs so that more kids may be blown to bits. But I am sure that Raygun is stunning and brave, or cringe. I just don’t care. Why do you?
The UK is now banning memes, that may also include articles, blogs, posts, tangents that go against the allowable opinion. Whatever the State decides one may express and witness. Perhaps reporting on genocide will become illegal? Who reads those reports anyhow and if they do, is there ever more than an, “Oh dear.” In the time of Covid that would have meant questions asked that then were wrongthink but are now allowed to be expressed. What can be asked, what is allowed to be said, what information is to be denied, what may be shared? Whatever any given regime decides, from moment to moment. It seems that the other English speaking nations of the Commonwealth may follow suit. God Save the King! The Orwellian example too obvious to bring up. Fiction does come from reality though, even before Orwell’s time.
Men scream, “I have the right to rape!” outside a prison. In support of those who did rape, violently sodomising inmates. Many seem to agree. History has proven them correct. It seems that some do have such a right. Now at least with vulgar entitlement they scream it with tears of pre-cum in their eyes. The State endorses it. An individual has no rights to their body anyhow, it belongs to the State, what they may or may not ingest, what medication they may access, even the sports they play all dictated by the State so it makes sense that government agents will sodomise men as State policy. It worked for the NKVD, so why not them? In the distance, past the memes and screams for rape, babies starve to death or are blown to bits. Policy.
When men who worshipped the prince of peace conquered the New World, they raped, murdered, enslaved and tortured. We are told by rationale minds that they were men of their time. That the natives were also wicked, and did bad things too. Though in their time mothers cried when their babies died, girls wept after being stabbed from a man’s penis, brothers died fighting them off and fathers broke down when their families were murdered before their eyes. They were people of their time as well. In generations from now, we will have scholars looking back, maybe through memes, reasoning that the current genocide was being committed by people of their time. They would be correct.
This is what civilisations do. Murder, conquer, destroy, bloat their society with debt, engorged with public servants, drowned in paperwork and the people addictedto welfare. Then crumble until a new one comes along. Monuments will be built over unmarked graves, built by those who will be long forgotten, too poor to not build such public work celebrations. The unimportant labour needed to immortalise the important so adored. Indentured as the Irish once were in the Commonwealth, just as a Kenyan may be now in a wealthy Gulf State. Those pretty high rises look lovely on the instagram though. Progress we are told. So that those with the right passports by shop and sight see, as those with their passports taken die to build.
The Congo dies, poisoned. So that you can read this. I have the right to rape! That is the spoken out loud words of the entitled, the privileged. We may discriminate what we spend our time on, though apparently we are far too busy to care. From societies so gorged that weight loss and diabetic amputation is a problem, while babies die from dysentery. Both illnesses so fixable, yet the governments impose embargoes so that more children die. While others are born to simply eat. The starvation embargoes punish who? Well fed warlords and public servants?
And you may ask, ‘what can I do about it?’ Ignoring that most who love government worship the religion of democracy, yet never seem to take any responsibility. The meme outrage comes from millions of individuals the world over. The image of a crushed baby is squashed beneath the memes of a breakdancer with Chris Lilley audio over it. The march to war between nuclear armed belligerents is blown aside by the concern over a sport that most never even cared about before. Women’s boxing wish it had as many fans as the likes and share mob have spewed across the screens. I suppose we know what you do really care about and that makes you just another person of your time.
August, 2024
